Best Short Stories Books — Community Picks

Discover the top Short Stories books as rated by the RateYourReads community. 462 books in this genre.

• A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
• Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Plain tales from the hills by Rudyard Kipling
• Works (Awakening / Beyond the Bayou / Desiree's Baby / Kiss / Locket / Ma'ame Pelagie / Pair of Silk Stockings / Reflection / Respectable Woman) by Kate Chopin
• The Duel and Other Stories [8 stories] by Антон Павлович Чехов
• Everything's Eventual. 14 Dark Tales by Stephen King
• Within the tides by Joseph Conrad
• The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro
• Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
• The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Fifty-one tales by Lord Dunsany
• The moon endureth by John Buchan